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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

I've been rebasing my One Hour Warhammer armies the last few days. The Skaven are completely rebased but need to be flocked. The Orcs are rebased but I still need to paint up a few new units then flock them. I've added two units of boar riders, a chariot, a troll and another unit of warriors.

I am basing all my Warhammer models on 60mm frontage bases. I am adhering to the concept of keeping my armies small. I received 5 Ogre Kingdoms models in the mail today. 3 Bulls and 2 Belchers. I have all but one Bull rebased. The Ogres are so large they fit one model to a 60mm x 30mm base.

Currently in my model inventory I have models to fill all or some needs for the following Warhammer factions.

I was asked to share the composition of my 15mm Fantasy Armies. I will start with the Dwarfs and list how I see them fit into OHW. Below lists the unit type and the number of units of that type, followed by their rating for OHW.

15mm "Ironforge" Dwarf Units
Crossbows 2 (0 in shooting, 0 in HtH)
Handgunners 4 (2 in shooting, 0 in HtH and any shooting roll of a 1 then out of ammo rest of game.)
Dwarf Warriors 8 (+2 HtH)
Hero Lords 2 (Add bonus to attached or nearby units, for an example see my link for Warhammer Characters on the left sidebar.)

Those are the three 15mm forces that I rebased for OHW-Fantasy. I still have a few more to go and they are: Lizardmen, Undead, & 2 Feudal Human Armies.Future 15mm Fantasy Projects include:
Second Undead Army
Second Lizardman Army
Dark Elves
Evil Men
Imperial Men
Undead Egyptian

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

I fought this battle back on the 7th so all the details are a bit sketchy now. Any way it was an enjoyable game. I used "One Hour Wargames" rules but reduced the hits a unit could take down to 10 each. I fielded 10 Orc units and 9 Dwarfs. The Orcs took first turn and advanced in hopes of sacking the dwarf hold. The battle went well and ended with a Dwarf victory.

The "Dwarf Hold" is a terrain feature from the Dragonriders of the Styx playset.

The Dwarfs line up to defend their hearth and hall.

Warg Riders lead the Orc advance.

Dwarf crossbows rain death upon advancing Orc scouts.

The Orc shaman throws a fireball at the advancing Dwarf unit.

This Dwarf Handgunner unit rolled a 1 in shooting. Which meant they caused 1 further casualty and are now out of ammo.

The Dwarf Thane leads the Dwarf Axe unit as it finishes off the unit of Black Orcs.

Skeletal Champion

An Ancient Aeyran Warrior

A Lancastrian Noble

An Archer from Lionspride.

Knight of the Golden Suns

Hyborian Fighter

Grenadier Minis

AD&D

Old School Roleplaying

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A toy soldier collector & wargamer from the Ozarks of Northwest Arkansas. Like many others I started the hobby with DBA/HOTT and moved on to games like Warhammer & 40K. Today my favorite games are 5Core, Memoir ’44, One Hour Wargames & Frostgrave. There are many periods that draw my interest; with the big three being fantasy, the second world war and late 19th century warfare. However I do dabble in many others as well, from the bronze age to galactic sci-fi in scales ranging from 1/600 to 54mm.